Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."

Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!

I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced.

Every man as well as every day has its lights and shades.

The enemy say that Americans are good at a long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron. I call upon you instantly to give a lie to this slander. Charge!

There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.

Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.

We are serving no one man, we are serving our country.

I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.

I am the happiest soul.

As we grow older we are apt to forget that the despair of the young is even more gigantic and immediately overwhelming than their hopefulness: we never again face such towering blank walls of misery.

Sometimes, when I'm feeling down because nothing seems to be going right, I like to take a home pregnancy test. Then I can say, 'Hey, at least I'm not pregnant.'

I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore.

Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

My thoughts and wishes are all that surrounds, mysteries hold you then fly you away. You know you are my life, my lady of dreams.

Port Security is one of our weakest security links, and it must be one of our highest priorities.

Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.

History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.